Class of Florida
Florida as residents know it, Palm Beach to Naples.
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A Rye Negroni for the Host Willing to Go Past the Easy Pour
The Mane of Needles starts from the Negroni, swaps in rye whiskey and finishes with a sharper, spikier bite than the classic. It isn't the even-measur…
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Three New Omakase Counters for Your Next Trip North
Anyone who goes up to New York once the Florida heat breaks will have three new omakase rooms to choose from, all opening in Midtown before the season…
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Fall Turns Red, Even Where the Leaves Don't
This season's menswear has settled on red, from brick-toned rust to deep wine, and the menswear designers have arrived at a point the people who decor…
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A 5.9-Carat Emerald, and 284 Stones to Keep It Company
A new high-jewelry set has arrived: a necklace and matching earrings named Victoria Falls, built around a single emerald of 5.9 carats. That green sto…
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A Rye Negroni Called Mane of Needles Asks a Little More of Florida's Home Bartenders
The Mane of Needles takes the Negroni, a drink most people can mix half-asleep, and builds it on rye whiskey, which gives it a sharper, spikier finish…
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Three New Omakase Counters in Midtown Before the Season Turns South
Midtown is getting three new high-end omakase restaurants this autumn, all opening within the same few months. That raises a fair question: can one st…
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From DeMille to Jolie to Madonna: One Los Feliz Address, Three Marquee Names
Madonna has bought Angelina Jolie's Los Angeles estate in Los Feliz for a little under $25 million. The property covers two acres, and its earlier own…
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A Macan With a Fuel Tank, Penciled In for 2028
Porsche is planning to bring a combustion-engine Macan back into its range, with 2028 as the target year. For Florida owners, that means a gasoline Ma…
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Casino Royale Dressing, Ready for a Palm Beach December
Turnbull & Asser has released a new menswear collection inspired by James Bond, and by Casino Royale in particular. It's being offered as an answer to…
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The Twelve-Cylinder Aston Has a Long Runway Ahead
Aston Martin plans to keep building cars with eight- and twelve-cylinder engines all the way to 2035, and it has moved its first battery-electric mode…
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Julia Child's Cambridge House Is for Sale at $6.5 Million, but the Kitchen Stays at the Smithsonian
A note to readers who spend the season between Worth Avenue and Fifth Avenue South: a house in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is now for sale for $6.5 mill…
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Reposado, by Way of the Orchard: Cazcanes Puts Its Tequila in Fruit-Seasoned Barrels
Cazcanes has released a set of reposado tequilas, and each one rested in a barrel that had earlier held a liqueur made from stone fruit, with a differ…
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Tyler Perry's Beverly Hills Estate, Once Home to the Sussexes, Comes to Market at $57 Million
Our readers know the West Coast story already: everyone in Beverly Hills lives close to someone famous, and in Palm Beach nobody admits to noticing. T…
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Voutilainen and Journe Lead Phillips New York's Biggest Online Watch Sale Yet
Phillips New York has put together its fall watch auction, and two names lead the catalog: Kari Voutilainen and F.P.Journe. By value, it is the larges…
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For Orlando Bloom, the Driver's Seat Is Where His Head Clears
Orlando Bloom turned up when Porsche Design unveiled its Concours project, and he used the moment to talk about what the marque means to him and what …
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A Room at the Frick, Scaled Down for Palm Beach
Eittem has partnered with New York's Frick Collection on a new set of accessories, and some of the inspiration came from one room inside the museum's …
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Michael Jordan's Ferrari Beat Its Top Estimate by More Than Double
The forecast for Michael Jordan's Ferrari 550 Maranello topped out at $1.3 million. The final price was $2.7 million, a new record. That is more than …
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A Hollywood Hills House From 1927, Kept the Way It Was Built, Now Asks $8 Million
Ross Cassidy, an interior designer, has put their 1927 house in the Hollywood Hills on the market at $8 million. The house is in the Spanish Revival s…
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The DBX GT: Aston Martin's Answer for the Driver Who Wants Every Horse and None of the Noise
Aston Martin has added a GT to its DBX line, and it matches the DBX S for performance while aiming for more polish. In Miami you'd want the speed, in …
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Linda Evangelista Lets Go of Her West Chelsea Perch After Twenty-Plus Years
Linda Evangelista has closed the sale of her top-floor Manhattan home in West Chelsea, and the price was $6.75 million. She had owned it for over twen…
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Eight Front Doors in Boynton Beach, and Every One of Them Is for the Staff
Larry Ellison, the billionaire who cofounded Oracle, has bought eight homes in a single Boynton Beach neighborhood that sits behind a gate. They are f…
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A Bourbon Worth a Splash of Water: King of Kentucky Arrives for Fall
The King of Kentucky release that whiskey people have been waiting on all season is now out. Each bottle comes from one barrel, and it goes in the bot…
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Michael Jordan's Ferrari 550 Maranello Goes for $2.7 Million, More Than Double Its Top Estimate
A Ferrari 550 Maranello that once belonged to Michael Jordan has found a new owner at $2.7 million, the highest price on record. The forecast had put …
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The Box Score in a Kobe Bryant Lakers Jersey: 472 Points, and Now a Price in the Millions
A single Los Angeles Lakers jersey from the 2003-04 season is going to auction, and its value comes with a record of exactly what happened while Kobe …
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One Jersey From the 1998 Finals Now Sets the Price for Basketball History
Michael Jordan's jersey from the 1998 NBA Finals, the championship run fans know as "The Last Dance," has gone to a bidder for $12.26 million. No bask…
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Forty Years on Fifth: David Murdock's New York Foothold Comes to Market at $15 Million
For more than four decades, David Murdock's home in New York was a maisonette on Fifth Avenue, and it is now for sale at $15 million. Floridians under…
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The Quietest Range Rover Sport Is Also the Strongest
The Range Rover Sport now comes as a battery-electric model, and it puts down more twisting force than any version of the Sport before it. Underneath,…
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A Sauna in Its Own Mirrored Pavilion, for $14 Million in the Hollywood Hills
The house that was once Michael B. Jordan's in the Hollywood Hills is now for sale at $14 million. The selling point here is the sauna. Ome Dezin, a d…
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A Publisher Puts His Restored 1950s House in Beverly Hills on the Market at $25 Million
Benedikt Taschen, the publisher, has listed his Beverly Hills house for $25 million. The house is known as the Adelman Residence, and it was built in …
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Johnnie Walker Turns to the Indian Kitchen for Its Latest Blue Label
Johnnie Walker has bottled a new Blue Label whose inspiration comes from the cooking of India. It is the second release in the house's run of bottling…
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A Nightclub, a Zipline and a Tennis Court: Paradise Valley Puts Everything Under One Roofline
Here is a $22.5 million house in Paradise Valley, Arizona, that keeps the whole evening at home: a nightclub under its own roof and a zipline outside.…
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Nearly Sold Out: A Dan Fink Residence at the Flatiron Comes to Market at $15.3 Million
For the reader who winters on Worth Avenue or along Gulf Shore Boulevard and still wants a key to Manhattan, the list of homes at the Flatiron Buildin…
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Rossinavi's Heed Brings the Owner's Pool Out to Sea
Rossinavi has built Heed, a 173-foot superyacht, and its standout feature is a pool reserved for the owner. Guests get a generous boat with real desig…
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Billy Joel's Ducatis and Triumphs Go to Auction Just as Florida's Riding Weather Arrives
The machines on offer are classic motorcycles from Billy Joel's collection, and the list includes both Ducatis and Triumphs. The sale is set for Novem…
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For the Palm Beach Set's Mountain Months, a Former Murdoch Address in Starwood Asks $29.8 Million
Plenty of households in Palm Beach and Naples run on two calendars, one for the water and one for the mountains, and Aspen has long answered for the s…
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Twice the Old Record: An Electric-Blue Veyron Brings $5.4 Million at Auction
An electric-blue Bugatti Veyron has sold at auction for $5.4 million, the highest price ever paid for the model. The previous top sale for a Veyron wa…
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A Frank Lloyd Wright for $2.1 Million, and It's in Michigan
A Frank Lloyd Wright house is on the market for $2.1 million. It isn't in Palm Beach, Naples or anywhere else you'd expect. It's the Samuel Eppstein R…
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A San Francisco Midcentury With an Early Chapter Attached, Now Asking $4.5 Million
A midcentury house in San Francisco is on the market at $4.5 million, and it comes with an unusual line on the fact sheet: California Governor Gavin N…
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The Seat Across the Aisle Is About to Become an Invitation
FlyWith is a new app that lets private fliers open their trips to friends, and it only lets people in by invitation. Its formal launch is set for the …
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Four Watches Named for Daytona Raise $49.5 Million, All of It for Charity
Four Daytona wristwatches, each the only one of its kind, have sold for $49.5 million combined, and none of that money stays with the sellers. Every d…
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A House That Floats, a Boat at the Door, and a $1.7 Million Asking Price in San Francisco
In Florida we know a thing or two about living near water. Naples buys its view, Palm Beach keeps a lawn between itself and the Atlantic, and Miami bu…
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The Office Where F.W. Woolworth Worked Is Now an $18.5 Million Home
Most of the Palm Beach crowd who keep a place in New York want something north of Fifty-Ninth Street. This one sits downtown, and it comes with a stor…
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A Porsche Wagon Worth Loading Up for the Drive Across Alligator Alley
Someone has turned a Porsche 944 into a shooting brake, and it is headed for a new owner shortly. Its designers took their cue from the 924 Turbo S wa…
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A Curator Dressed It, and the Best Room at the Caribbean Has No Ceiling
In Miami Beach, a $7 million penthouse at the Caribbean is on the market, and the part people will talk about is on the roof. The home has four bedroo…
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San Francisco's Rarest Waterfront Address Floats, and It Comes With a Boat
People in Florida tend to think we have the last word on living by the water. Palm Beach has its seawalls, Naples its canals and Miami its towers abov…
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A 710-Horsepower 911 and the Question of Which Florida Garage Deserves It
Singer's Firefly Commission starts from a 964-generation Porsche 911. It now makes 710 horsepower and has a top speed of 218 miles per hour. The aucti…
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A Beverly Hills Practice Built for Families Who Would Rather Not Be Passed Down the Hall
In Beverly Hills, IMA ART Fertility treats both fertility care and surrogacy as custom work, shaped around each patient. The practice is built so that…
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A $23 Million Hidden Hills Home, Seen From the Other Coast
Diana Jenkins, who appeared on "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills," has put her house in Hidden Hills on the market at $23 million. It has seven be…
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After the Watch, the Kit: What Serious Collectors Keep Within Reach
Buying the watch is the part everyone talks about. What comes next gets less attention: the gear that serious collectors actually use once the piece i…
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The Long Hunt for a Worthy Tote Ends With a Newer Name
A Robb Report writer says a long search for a daily carry is over, and the tote that ended it comes from a young label rather than one of the old hous…
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